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  1. Re:Let's do the math on Tesla Says Model 3 Had 'Biggest One-Week Launch of Any Product Ever' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    In the event someone needs a tow for a recharge, where does one go to find a place to recharge? Are there designated charging stations that accept a credit card swipe? Are they proprietary or NEMA 14-50 too? I know getting a tow is expensive, so it might be worth charging for 20 minutes or so enough to return home. OTOH, if you can afford a Tesla, paying the tow driver to haul it back home directly is just a "convenience fee".

  2. Re:Energy density per kg on Siemens and Airbus To Push Electric Aviation Engines (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Modern GE and RR engines are incredibly efficient as they are already. And if I'm not mistaken, they all use variable stator vanes too. The conversion loss in converting KE into EE has to be substantial, yes? Obviously brighter minds will try and crack this nut, but I just don't see it being cost effective to do so with the added complexity.

  3. Re:Let's do the math on Tesla Says Model 3 Had 'Biggest One-Week Launch of Any Product Ever' (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Which is nothing if you're an urbanite living in a major US city. But there's the additional cost of getting the charger purchased and installed, no?

  4. It's the "monkeysphere" of the wealthy elite.

    In general, everyone belongs to a moneyshere - many overlap others. By any other name, it's a fancy word for degrees of separation. The old saying holds true, the death of an individual is tragic while the death of millions is a statistic. Be honest, when great earthquakes and a tsunamis occurred halfway around the world, did you actually shed a tear? I didn't. It's not that I'm a heartless bastard, just that I'm that far dissociated from them to say, a relative that recently passed away. I attended his funeral BTW. That's just have far removed the wealthy elite are from the rest of society. They're actions are self-destructive. Worse, they honestly don't know it! Does an apex predator know he's top of the food chain? Does a fish know it's wet?

  5. Re:Show of hands for the hypocrites on There Are Some Super Shady Things In Oculus Rift's Terms of Service (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    "Psssstttt!! Yeah, you, the one that's supposed to be cramming for that exam. It's me, your Rift. Hey, you and me, we need to have a little talk about your recent lack of playtime... What?! You can't play games now?? I don't play games pal, I PLAY YOU! Comehere... I've got this fine hot chick that would just love to play with your joystick pal! Come on, just put it on. Just. Put. Me. On. That's right...ahhhhhhh.."

  6. Re:It is also known.. on Electric Fork Simulates a Salty Flavor By Shocking Your Tongue (med.news.am) · · Score: 1

    This! Look, when people lambast 'capitalism', what their distain is really towards is the collective unconscious will of the population that steer market trends in a direction that he/she don't agree with. Take salt and sugar for example; the only reason why they're found in unhealthy quantities is for two primary reasons, taste and as a good preservative. Sales numbers don't lie. When the numbers are ran, against individual items over a period of time, one can deduce and potentially forecast the effect of an addictive substances on future sales. That, and extending shelf-life also has an impact in reduced costs of production and distribution due to expired products that didn't sell.

    Look at it this way. And individual is smart, but people are dumb. When it comes to eating healthy, the path the average consumer paves is not the one that should be followed. Blame them, not the "system".

  7. Re:Sounds good. on California's $15-an-Hour Minimum Wage May Spur Automation (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Welcome to the new aristocracy; where jobs and titles are given by those in power, to others will less power. As for the commoner, they will either be a serf or a peasant depending on if you owned the land or not. But regardless, most will be just extra mouths to feed and clothe lest you have a revolt on your hands. The other option is to go all Joseph Stalin on people and literally kill vast populations of people that aren't or won't need to contribute to society. So yes, you should be very worried!!

  8. Re:May spur automation on California's $15-an-Hour Minimum Wage May Spur Automation (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I will never understand why minimum wage is not tied to inflation rates

    Because you don't understand economics. What you just proposed would be EXACTLY how you crash a fiat currency. To peg the minimum wage to inflation would create recursion (a logical loop) that would instantly hyper-inflate currency! It would start inflating so quickly, you'd eventually need LED price signs just to watch the number roll up in real-time. At some point, the value of the dollar is meaningless.

  9. At least in the case of the US, the oil industry isn't state run.

    Officially. Unofficially, well, let's just say hookers and blow can outright purchase representation. So from that aspect, yeah, what difference doest it make?

  10. Re:What is this All-Writs stuff about? on Feds Used 1789 Law To Force Apple, Google To Unlock Phones 63 Times (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    As an American, not that I disagree that collectively as a nation, we're our own worst enemy with regards to the erosion of civil liberties. But lets keep this honest shall we? European nations never have been a bastion of liberty either, specifically the UK (an example of 1984 in action). With regards to the East and Middle Easter nation, South America, Africa..etc. Yeah, they've had problems going back thousands of years.

    Me? I'd just assume let Texas become a Republic again once the Union implodes under the 20+ TRILLION in debt. I mean, it shouldn't have come to this, and I don't wish it, but it is what it is. What cannot go on forever, won't. File this under 'sad but true'.

  11. Re:fullest possible random checks are the best way on TSA's Precheck Registration Program Causing Longer Security Lines (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Two air-martials sitting with their backs against the cockpit door while looking down the aisle of the plane. That's all that's needed in addition to just going back to metal detectors; though I can be convinced to do away with those too however.

  12. Re: Printer with public internet ip? why? on Hacker Weev Admits To Hacking Printers To Spew Racist and Anti-Semitic Messages (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you mean that the attacker would forge packets to printer's tcp port 9100 as a forged answer to its outgoing DNS requests? That would again not work, as there is no NAT mapping in the router to printer's address port 9100 as a result of its DNS request unless the DNS request originated from port 9100...

    No, I was thinking along the lines that the printer wouldn't have a reason to initiate a connection to the outside unless it has the means to do so. In that case, a public IP for HP ePrint via the cloud. By not providing DNS servers to lookup a hostname, the printer can't resolve the public IP and thus wouldn't initiate a connection. But I do see your point about ports. In the case of ePrint, it would be ports 80, 443, 5222, and 5223.

  13. The same FBI that says to pay the ransom when your network gets hit with ransomware. Just so you all know.

    http://www.businessinsider.com...

    Reported last week by Security Ledger, Joseph Bonavolonta, the Assistant Special Agent who oversees the FBI’s CYBER and Counterintelligence Program in Boston, spoke at the 2015 Cyber Security Summit and advised that companies infected with ransomware may want to give in to the criminal’s demands.

    “The ransomware is that good,” Bonavolonta explained to an audience of business and technology leaders during the Q&A. “To be honest, we often advise people just to pay the ransom.”

  14. Re: Printer with public internet ip? why? on Hacker Weev Admits To Hacking Printers To Spew Racist and Anti-Semitic Messages (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    I've seen plenty of firewall rules

    Correction, I meant firewall logs.

  15. Re: Printer with public internet ip? why? on Hacker Weev Admits To Hacking Printers To Spew Racist and Anti-Semitic Messages (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    My point is that SPI is totally irrelevant on accessing NATted private IPs from outside. The router drops the packets from outside not because of SPI, but because it has no instruction what to do with those packets

    So you're saying forged packets aren't broadcasted in the open? I've seen plenty of firewall rules where the source from = public IP to destination = private IP. That could be internal 192.168.x.x or 10.x.x.x. Obviously, if that private IP subnet doesn't exist, there won't be a route for it.

    Also - if you are "of the understanding that you can't pass NAT traffic from outside", how do you propose that they "guessed and "walked" (war dialed) the internal private IP range of 192.168.1.x and attempted port 9100" as you so elegantly put it?

    Forged packets? I suppose HP printers will attempt communication via DNS lookup to the outside (because of all those stupid silly feature services for ease of access). I haven't confirmed this however. But as a precaution, I always statically assign MFP devices outside of DHCP scope with no DNS settings in the IP configuration. If they need to scan-to-e-mail, I'll just relay internally via IP instead of hostname to a server specifically designated for relaying SMTP traffic back out via an email Smart Host.

  16. Re: Printer with public internet ip? why? on Hacker Weev Admits To Hacking Printers To Spew Racist and Anti-Semitic Messages (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    You throw around nice terms like "walk" and "spi" having no clue of network architecture and how ip actually works.

    Thanks for being a dick.

    But to respond to your comment directly; yes, I assume that the printer is on a private ip. Why not? Who in the fuck puts client devices on the internet these days??!! It's just back practice all around. I'm not saying it can't happen, but in my professional experience with the SMB market, NAT implies extra client address space as well as implicit security. Of course, having a firewall functionality (SPI minimum) provides explicit protection. With regards to SPI, I'm of the understanding that you can't pass NAT traffic from outside in unless the client in the private IP subnet requests an open connection; otherwise the traffic is dropped. Is that not the case?

  17. Re:Printer with public internet ip? why? on Hacker Weev Admits To Hacking Printers To Spew Racist and Anti-Semitic Messages (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    They can't be on the DMZ. Most likely he guessed and "walked" (war dialed) the internal private IP range of 192.168.1.x and attempted port 9100. OTOH, firewalls are SPI at the least so I'm not sure how he pulled that off. The fact the private IP assigned was static or dynamic doesn't matter with regards to this ability.

  18. Re:That's actually really surprising... on Slaughter At The Bridge: Uncovering A Colossal Bronze Age Battle (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    "He who controls the past, controls the future."

  19. Can anyone tell me why temporarily banning Muslim immigration from conflict areas is a bad idea? Seems like a common-sense approach to me.

    Because in large numbers, immigrants don't assimilate into their host country as quickly. I'm sure there's a mathematical model on it, but something to the effect of the more of an immigrant population density, the less of an assimilation rate into the host nation's culture. Now that that, and apply it to muslims; whom BTW are the *least* likely to assimilate to begin with. In fact, quite the opposite. Wherever they congregate in large populations in Europe, they seek to impose Sharia law which is antithetical to western civilizations framed around judea-christian values.

  20. Look on the bright side. No matter how bad this proto-fascist is, the alternative is Clinton whom is a lying globalist whore who will, and has, sold the country out for personal gain. With trump, he's a wild-card. And unlike Clinton, Trump can never get away with a fraction of the crap Clinton has. Both the legislative and judicial branch will see to that; especially being that he's an outsider.

  21. Going Japanese - Capsule hotel on New Microhotels Fight Airbnb With 65 Square Foot Rooms (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    See, the perfect business opportunity is capsule living for the never ending spinning door of employment known as H1B. For them, they work, live cheaply in a capsule, send money overseas, and go home with work experience and start a business --- all on the backs of middle class Murica. FUCK YA!!!

  22. Partner with Apple and be done with it on Nintendo Ending Wii U Production Later This Year, Says Report (polygon.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Title says it all; seriously, partner with Apple. They can amp up the next AppleTV and make a killer platform for Nintendo signature franchises (Mario, Zelda, Metroid, etc). Nintendo doesn't have the marketshare that Apple has with iOS development, and another console isn't going to compete against an all-in-one home entertainment device such as the AppleTV. As an old-school NES / SNES gamer, watching Nintendo drag this on in obstinance is agonizing! SEGA did the right thing folding their hardware development, but they faltered really badly on the title delivery side of things thereafter. But such a Apple/Nintendo partnership would be HUGE for both of them.

  23. Re:Playstation 32X on Sony Working on 'PlayStation 4.5' With Enhanced VR and 4K Support (kotaku.com) · · Score: 1

    No. No it's not. The 32X as I've stated is a bolt-on. Meaning, anyone with a Genesis (MegaDrive) could purchase one to play the latest 32X games. A PS4+ or PS4K, or whatever, is an entirely new console. Meaning, market penetration will be less for existing console owners for all but the most die-hard that will no doubt trade up at the nearest GameStop.

  24. RIM job on NSA Suggested Clinton Use A $4,750 Windows CE PDA (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Guess the next POTUS will be using an iPhone 7 - assuming Tim Cook prevails in the fight against the very government looking for approved devices. I guess too secure is a problem, no?

  25. Re:Playstation 32X on Sony Working on 'PlayStation 4.5' With Enhanced VR and 4K Support (kotaku.com) · · Score: 1

    So I'm responding to both you and the AC in this chain: I can't imagine the devs looking to tap into this PS4+ for enhanced 1080p over the standard PS4. If anything, to prevent fragmentation in the online multi-player experience (can't be having differences in performances like in the PC world) for competitive reasons, the'll have to throw 4K mode into its own multiplayer session. Meaning, PS4+ vs PS4 having the same 1080 characteristics can play together. But PS4+ enhanced GPU 1080 vs PS4 standard GPU 1080 wouldn't, or rather shouldn't, be allowed in the same hosted session. Ditto for 4k mode. Only PS4+ in 4K mode can play with other PS4+ units. Just think of the uproar in a COD game where performance is a *huge* difference in both responsiveness and sniping ability.